When I finished off my series of ranking the plants in every world,
I intended to do a similar thing for the zombies, but decided to do a tier list instead,
mainly because of Jurassic Marsh’s lack of zombies, specifically unique ones.
The tier list completely left out the dinosaurs, and because I’ve been suggested this video
numerous times, I’m going to rank them right now. I was unsure whether to call this ‘Worst to Best’,
‘Least to Most Annoying’ or ‘Easiest to Hardest’, but in the end I decided on the latter.
Okay, enough chit-chat, I’m GoldNinja Vlogspot, let’s get on with the video.
Coming in as the least threatening dinosaur is the T-Rex. This may surprise some people
given I’m sure everyone who isn’t tougher than a 2-dollar steak probably had to change their
pants the first time they encountered this innocent-looking-but-truly-fearsome creature,
given he gives zombies a huge speed boost and they can easily get to your house if you can’t
respond to this in time. However, he’s super easy to counter, because…
slowing and stalling plants exist.
While a defensive plant of some sort sounds like the way to go, you don’t even need to do that –
you could just plant a sacrificial plant like the Puff-Shroom as even that will cancel out
their bonus speed. And that’s not to mention this is the world you get Primal Wall-Nut who recharges
at the speed of a peregrine and doesn’t cost much, so bonk one of these down and you’re good. Plus,
the good old T-Rex leaves after roaring once, while all the rest stick around for a lot longer.
He can be a huge threat if there are zombies carried over by Pterodactyls as they turn around
and pretty much have a free pass to your house, but overall he’s the least dangerous Dinosaur.
Number 4 is the Raptor. The Velociraptor is my personal favourite dinosaur in PVZ2 – one because
he’s blue – that’s always nice and two because Velociraptor is the name of a banging album by Kasabian.
p.s. you should totally check this band out they're sick
The first dinosaur encountered is a hell of a nuisance given he kicks zombies forward into
your defences up to the third column, which is further than the maximum lanes the Relic Hunter
zombies can bypass. Defensive plants sound like an obvious counter but more often than not the
raptor will kick them ahead of them, making them less useful. The best way to deal with him is
probably to use the Primal Peashooter, because he can knock the zombies back again, and since
the raptor leaves after kicking 5 zombies, you can pretty much force him to kick the same zombie
over and over again, although this strategy isn’t effective if there are Jurassic Bullies.
Another solution is to use Blover as zombies are temporarily airbourne when
being kicked so can be blown off the lawn, and of course charming him means he can get rid of
even Gargantuars, but when it comes to multiple tanky zombies, this guy is quite the irritant.
In the middle of the list is the Stegosaurus.
I was debating whether to rank Stegsy over V-Boy, but I put this guy up higher because he can
toss the zombies off to other lanes, which can
be problematic if you’ve not set up a good enough defence yet, which is quite a frequent occurrence
in Jurassic Marsh, while at least the Raptor can’t divert the zombies so you can easily set that lane
up. He can fling up to 3 zombies at once, and leaves after performing his sequence three times,
totalling the number of flung zombies to 9. There is a pretty easy way to counter him though – the
zombies have to be in a specific position in the ninth column to be sent flying, so you can easily
cut them off with Wall-Nuts, which is easy to do as no zombies in this world besides Rockpunchers
and Gargantuars can insta-kill plants – and even then, the latter can’t be flung anyway. However,
this guy is not very fun to deal with at all due to his unpredictable nature and
defense-breaking abilities, and therefore he gets into the top 3 of this list.
The second most annoying and most difficult zombie is the Pterodactyl.
This one is probably the biggest priority to charm with the Perfume-Shroom,
literally, as soon as he rears his ugly head, get him high on perfume. The reason it’s so important
is because the zombies will turn around and eat through like a Prospector Zombie,
but the difference is Prospector is quite slow and only has the health of a regular zombie,
while the Pterodactyl can grab anything that isn’t a Gargantuar or Imp, so you could be
dealing with an incredibly tanky zombie. And you should use the Shroom before he grabs a zombie,
as while the charm usually applies if he already has a zombie, it doesn’t always work due to the
game’s clunky mechanics. While there are several other counters such as Spikerock, Endurian and
any backwards-attacking plant like Split Pea, again, it’s the potential health issue, and
although Primal Peashooter can usually knock them away, this is unreliable and chances are you’ll
be using plants in the second column, so those could end up getting eaten instead. When things
REALLY get hectic is when multiple Dactyls appear at once, because the Perfume recharges pretty
slowly so unless you’re using an Imitater, you’ve got no way to neutralise them both. In most other
scenarios, this guy would be the hardest one, so that’s where we get to #1 on this list...
… The Ankylosaurus. When I asked you all on what was the worst dinosaur, this guy won the votes by
a landslide. And it’s REALLY not hard to see why given he not only tosses zombies EXTREMELY far
into your defences, so he’s basically a Steg or Raptor on roids – but he can also get rid
of plants. Yep, if a plant is on the leftmost column, it can get pushed right off the lawn,
so now he’s a Mecha-Football Zombie on roids as well. For this reason it’s highly recommended not
to use expensive plants at the back because it can be difficult to replace them, and since the
Ankylosaurus rearranges your formations, you won’t be able to use an Intensive Carrot to clutch it.
This guy can absolutely wreck your defences and can even one-shot Infi-Nuts.
He’s also briefly immune to the Perfume-Shroom during his flinging animation, so you have to
charm him before he does this, and there are no limits on what zombies he can interact with,
so yep, he can launch Gargs too. Aside from the Perfume, you can block the zombies off by
using a disposable plant in front of the zombies just before they get flung. You can also freeze
zombies with Iceberg Lettuce’s plant food (or Cold Snapdragon’s, if you went and bought him)
because zombies lose their ability to push back plants when frozen. However, these minor remedies
will not always be an option when multiple dinosaurs of any kind are present at once,
especially as the Perfume recharges quite slow and won’t be able to keep up with packs
of dinos at once. Overall this is definitely the most fearsome dinosaur in Jurassic Marsh
and a big contributing factor of why this is one of the hardest worlds in the game.
That’s my video. What’s your ranking? Tell me in the comments below, remember to subscribe if
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